Japan at the 1928 Summer Olympics

Japan at the 1928 Summer Olympics
IOC code	JPN
NOC	Japanese Olympic Committee
Website	www.joc.or.jp  (in Japanese and English)
in Amsterdam
Competitors	43
Flag bearer	Yonetaro Nakazawa
Medals Ranked 15th	Gold 2 Silver 2 Bronze 1 Total 5
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The Empire of Japan competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Background

The Japan Amateur Athletic Federation (Nihon Rikujo Kyogi Renmei), founded in 1925, officially took over sponsorship of the Japanese Olympic team from the Japan Amateur Athletic Association in 1928. Japanese government sponsorship of the Olympic effort continued, both financially, and through expansion of the annual Meiji Shrine Games to include a wider variety of sports, including archery, basketball, field hockey, rowing, table tennis, volleyball and equestrian sports. ^[1]

The games became the qualifying event for the Japanese Olympic team, which now for the first time included a woman (Kinue Hitomi). For the 1928 Olympics, Japan fielded 43 athletes.

Medalists

Medal Name Sport Event Date  Gold Mikio Oda Athletics Men's triple jump August 2  Gold Yoshiyuki Tsuruta Swimming Men's 200 m breaststroke August 8  Silver Kinue Hitomi Athletics Women's 800 m August 2  Silver Hiroshi Yoneyama Nobuo Arai Tokuhei Sada Katsuo Takaishi Swimming Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay August 11  Bronze Katsuo Takaishi Swimming Men's 100 m freestyle August 11

Medals by sport Sport Total Swimming 1 1 1 3 Athletics 1 1 0 2 Total 2 2 1 5

Athletics

Kinue Hitomi:Silver medalist of Woman's 800m Athletics at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Games

Main article: Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics

Ranks given are within the heat.

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Iwao Aizawa	Men's 100 m	?	4	Did not advance
	Men's 200 m	22.6	3	Did not advance
Yoshio Miki	Men's 110 m hurdles	15.4	1 Q	?	6	Did not advance
Juichi Nagatani	Men's 10000 m	?	19	Did not advance
	Men's Marathon	—						3:03.34	48
Seiichiro Tsuda		—						2:36.20	6
Kanematsu Yamada		—						2:35.29	4

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Ichiro Furuyama	Discus throw	37.89	27	Did not advance
Kazuo Kimura	High jump	1.83	1 Q	1.88	6
Yonetaro Nakazawa	Pole vault	3.66	1 Q	3.90	6
Chūhei Nambu	Long jump	7.25	9	Did not advance
	Triple jump	15.01	2 Q	15.01	4
Mikio Oda	Long jump	7.11	11	Did not advance
	Triple jump	15.21	1 Q	15.21
	High jump	1.83	1 Q	1.88	7
Yoshio Okita	Discus throw	36.38	30	Did not advance
	Hammer throw	44.41	15	Did not advance
Kosaku Sumiyoshi	Javelin throw	59.05	13	Did not advance

Combined events – Decathlon

Athlete	Event	100 m	LJ	SP	HJ	400 m	100H	DT	PV	JT	1500 m	Final	Rank
Yonetaro Nakazawa	Result	12.4	6.04	10.37	1.75	1:01.8	18.4	31.43	3.70	40.33	5:54.6	4795	22
	Points	531	595	508	585	350	464	493	535	447	287
Tatsuo Toki	Result	11.6	6.90	11.03	1.75	54.4	16.8	34.01	3.10	45.83	5:10.8	5794	12
	Points	683	790	548	585	617	620	544	381	527	499

Women

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Kinue Hitomi	800 m	2:26:04	Q	—				2:17:06

Boxing

Main article: Boxing at the 1928 Summer Olympics

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Fuji Okamoto	Bantamweight	BYE	Traynor  (IRL) L	Did not advance
Kintaro Usuda	Welterweight	Fernández  (ESP) W	Hall  (RHO) W	Smillie  (CAN) L	Did not advance

Diving

Main article: Diving at the 1928 Summer Olympics

Swimmer	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Fumio Takashina	Men's 3 m springboard	139.82	8 QF	x	x	139.78	9

Equestrian

Main article: Equestrian at the 1928 Summer Olympics

Dressage

Equestrian	Horse	Event	Final
			Score	Rank
Kozeki Okada	Takushu	Dressage	193.70	20
Kohei Yusa	Sakigake		166.96	28

Eventing

Athlete	Horse	Event	Dressage		Cross-country			Jumping			Total
								Final
			Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Rank
Shunzo Kido	Kyngun	Individual	200.66	17	1432.0	6	1632.66	8	180.0	26	1812.66	21

Show jumping

Athlete	Horse	Event	Qualification			Final
			Time	Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Rank
Shigetomo Yoshida	Kyuzan	Individual	DSQ			Did not advance

Rowing

Main article: Rowing at the 1928 Summer Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Round 1		Repechage		Round 2		Repechage		Round 3		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Kinichiro Ishii	Single Sculls	DNF	15	Did not advance
Kazuo Nose Makoto Tsushida Isamu Takashima Hachiro Sato Tsukasa Sonobe	Coxed four	7:49.0	2 R	7:51.4	2	Did not advance

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 1928 Summer Olympics

Tsuruta:Gold medalist of Man's 200m Breaststroke at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Games

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Nobuo Arai	Men's 400 m freestyle	5:23.4	10 QQ	DNS		Did not advance
	Men's 1500 m freestyle	21:35:4	9 QQ	DNS		Did not advance
Toshio Irie	Men's 100 m backstroke	1:13.4	3 QQ	1:14.0	3 QF	1:13.6	4
Shourai Kimura	Men's 100 m backstroke	DNS		Did not advance
Yuki Mawatari	Men's 200 m breaststroke	DNS		Did not advance
Katsuo Takaishi	Men's 100 m freestyle	1:01.2	4 QQ	1:00.0	1 QF	1:00.0
	Men's 400 m freestyle	5:22.8	9 QF	DNS		Did not advance
Takaji Takebayashi	Men's 1500 m freestyle	22:30.4	9 QQ	DNF	—	Did not advance
Yoshiyuki Tsuruta	Men's 200 m breaststroke	2:50.0	1 OR	2:49.2	1 OR	2:48.8	OR
Hiroshi Yoneyama	400 metre freestyle	5:17.8	3 QQ	DNS		Did not advance
Nobuo Arai Tokuhei Sada Katsuo Takaishi Hiroshi Yoneyama	4×200 metre freestyle relay	9:42.6	2 QF	—		9:41.4

Wrestling

Main article: Wrestling at the 1928 Summer Olympics

Men's Freestyle

Athlete	Event	Elimination Pool							Final round
		Round 1 Result	Round 2 Result	Round 3 Result	Round 4 Result	Round 5 Result	Round 6 Result	Rank	Final round Result	Rank
Isuke Shinmen	−65 kg	BYE	Hans Mollet  (SUI) L F	—				8	Did not advance

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database

1. Guttman, Allen. Japanese Sports: A History (University of Hawaii Press, 2001), p. 119-120.